Managing bilingual interaction in a Gujarati complementary school in Leicester

Language and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-22

  Martin, Peter ^a   Bhatt, Arvind ^b   Bhojani, Nirmala ^c   Creese, Angela ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Crownhills Community College   (United Kingdom)

^c Leicester City Libraries   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual learning; Code switching; Gujarati; Leicester

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244481800     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500780608668707     Document Type: Article

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